New handbook on Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Science

Friday, July 10, 2009

The powerpoint below was presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology in a plenary panel session on the forthcoming handbook, Anthonie Meijers (Ed.) (in press). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 9: Philosophy of Technology & Engineering Sciences, Elsevier.

The handbook is in press and more information is available on the Elsevier link above or the Amazon link here.

Engineering rigor and its discontents: The powerpoint

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The presentation Engineering Rigor and Its Discontents: Philosophical Reflection as Curative to Math-Physics Envy is available in the viewer below:

This talk was presented Wednesday at SPT 2009, the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.  The abstract is available here.

iFoundry website welcomes NUS visitors

Monday, June 29, 2009

NUS visitors wishing to view the talk on The Missing Basics by David E. Goldberg can do so in the viewer below

or they may view it on the iFoundry slideshare page (here).  iFoundry YouTube videos are available here and other presentations by Professor Goldberg are available on the slideshare page here.

Goldberg at NUS: What engineers don’t learn

Monday, June 22, 2009

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iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will speak at the National University of Singapore on Monday, 29 June 2009 at 3pm in LT1, FoE on What Engineers Don’t Learn and Why They Don’t Learn It. Download a full seminar announcement here.

The missing basics and an academic NIMBY problem

Thursday, June 4, 2009

The 2009 Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education starts tonight at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and iFoundry co-director David E. Goldberg will be giving a poster presentation entitled The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem: Conceptual and Organizational Obstacles to an Engineering Education Aligned with a Creative Era (here).

The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem

The Missing Basics and an Academic NIMBY Problem


The missing basics

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

A preprint of an article The Missing Basics & Other Philosophical Reflections for the Transformation of Engineering Education submitted to a volume edited by Dom Grasso, Dean at UVM, tentatively entitled The Future of Engineering Education and Practice is available at PhilSci archive here.

A related YouTube video can be viewed here or in the viewer below: